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Snowstorms Slow Down Sales

February 18, 2011

Retail sales grew at a glacial pace last month, as winter storms pounded much of the country, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Sales rose 0.3 percent in January from the previous month to $381.57 billion, the Commerce Department said. That was the smallest gain since June.

"If you take the numbers literally, they imply a slowing of consumption [growth], but I think inevitably the numbers reflected snowstorm effects," MF Global economist Jim O'Sullivan told the Wall Street Journal.